A Dog's Head.(Review)(Brief Article)

From: The Antioch Review | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Saari, Jon | Copyright information

by Jean Dutourd, tr. Robin Chancellor. University of Chicago Press, 149 pp., $12.00 (paper).

Critically well received in England and the United States when it was first published 45 years ago, this re-released French novel tells the story of Edmund du Chaillu, who is born with a cocker spaniel's head. Edmund's parents can think only of their own misfortune and devise a plan to treat their son as a boy by ignoring the fact of his being a dog. When he goes to school, thoug...

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